The Day of the Imprisoned Writer is held by PEN every year on 15 November to highlight and campaign for writers that are facing charges or who have been imprisoned for expressing themselves. The five cases that PEN is focusing...
Read More
This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. Renowned novelist and PEN member Aslı Erdoğan was arrested at her home in Istanbul on 17 August...
Read More
We are appalled by the events unfolding in Turkey. The banning of newspapers, the closure of publishers and the persecution of writers and journalists is a body blow to Turkey’s democracy and to its future. From our own history as...
Read More
